script not being picked up from REST api via curl

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1

Hi,

I’m trying to submit a script though curl, but it seems that it isn’t being picked up. This is the syntax I use:

[font=Courier]curl -X POST WebPageTest
-F ‘f=json’
-F ‘url=https://www.example.com’
-F ‘k=mysupersecretkey’
-F ‘script=@script_file_name’
[/font]

My script consist of just:
[font=Courier]navigate https://yahoo.com
navigate https://ca.news.yahoo.com
[/font]

It works, but the only site visited is example.com, the result is exactly like if I had no “script” instruction. If I point to a non-existing file I get an expected error from curl. If I put invalid command in the wpt script, I do not get any error and get the same behaviour as if I had no script at all…

What am I doing wrong here?

Also, why do we need a url if we have a script (trying to automate some test where I could change just the wpt script…).

2

This seemed to work for me when I tried it

3

This was with the -F 'script=@script_file_name' curl syntax?

It works for me if I put the content of a script after the equal sign, but not when I try to load a file with the at sign…

4

Yup just like this

curl -X POST http://www.webpagetest.org/runtest.php \
-F 'f=json' \
-F 'url=https://www.example.com' \
-F 'k=key' \
-F 'script=@wpt-script.txt'